D. Webster

Cited as D. Webster. — 27 quotations

Compress

Events of centuries . . . compressed within the compass of a single life.

Consideration

The undersigned has the honor to repeat to Mr. Hulseman the assurance of his high consideration.

Corpse

He touched the dead corpse of Public Credit, and it sprung upon its feet.

Credit

He touched the dead corpse of Public Credit, and it sprung upon its feet.

Description

Milton has descriptions of morning.

despond

We wish that . . . desponding patriotism may turn its eyes hitherward, and be assured that the foundations of our national power still stand strong.

Detection

Such secrets of guilt are never from detection.

Disclosure

He feels it [his secret] beating at his heart, rising to his throat, and demanding disclosure.

Disguise

That eye which glances through all disguises.

Dissever

States disserved, discordant, belligerent.

Distinction

Your country's own means of distinction and defense.

distrust

Alienation and distrust . . . are the growth of false principles.

Disunion

I have not accustomed myself to hang over the precipice of disunion.

Down

Venerable men! you have come down to us from a former generation.

Drumbeat

Whose morning drumbeat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.

Duration

Soon shall have passed our own human duration.

Heaven

When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven.

Inseparable

Liberty and union, now and forever, one and inseparable.

Object

Let our object be, our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country.

Public

He [Alexander Hamilton] touched the dead corpse of the public credit, and it sprung upon its feet.

Ruba-dub

The rubadub of the abolition presses.

Self-government

It is to self-government, the great principle of popular representation and administration, -- the system that lets in all to participate in the councels that are to assign the good or evil to all, -- that we may owe what we are and what we hope to be.

Servant

Men in office have begun to think themselves mere agents and servants of the appointing power, and not agents of the government or the country.

Silence

The administration itself keeps a profound silence.

Star

With the old flag, the true American flag, the Eagle, and the Stars and Stripes, waving over the chamber in which we sit.

Usurpation

Manifest usurpation on the rights of other States.

Venerable

Venerable men! you have come down to us from a former generation.